Brazil, the Amazons and the coast .. . ar of this obstacle, againresumes his seat. If he can overtake the ox, he runs his goad into its side, and ifthis is dexterously done he throws it. Then he dismounts and ties the animals legstogether, or places one foreleg over its horns, which secures it most blows are received by these men, but death is rarely occasioned.—Koster:Travels in Brazil. 1817. Vol. i., p. 235. t The jangada is a small raft, with a raised staging at one end, and a great tri-angular sail. The passenger is carried through the surf safely, if he holds on tightlyen
Brazil, the Amazons and the coast .. . ar of this obstacle, againresumes his seat. If he can overtake the ox, he runs his goad into its side, and ifthis is dexterously done he throws it. Then he dismounts and ties the animals legstogether, or places one foreleg over its horns, which secures it most blows are received by these men, but death is rarely occasioned.—Koster:Travels in Brazil. 1817. Vol. i., p. 235. t The jangada is a small raft, with a raised staging at one end, and a great tri-angular sail. The passenger is carried through the surf safely, if he holds on tightlyenough. If the surf is at all high the baggage gets wet; the passenger does, in anycase. 4o6 BRAZIL. province contained nine hundred thousand inhabitants, ormore than the whole Amazons valley. Of these, perhapsone hundred and fifty thousand were proprietors, and pos-sibly twenty thousand could be called rich men ; but theriches consisted of cattle and farms, and the yearly revenuewas derived from the sale of produce. Seven hundred and. A Jangada in the Breakers (from Keller). fifty thousand poor people had no landed property. Possi-bly one hundred and fifty thousand of these were regularlyemployed ; the rest lived on the yearly products of theirlittle plantations, and by hunting, or doing a days work oc-casionally. The whole population was dependent on the fertile soilfor its sustenance. Herds were pastured on the grass lands ; CEARA AND THE DROUGHT. 40/ herdsmen and proprietors had no income beyond the stockfarms ; merchants could only sell where the herds or planta-tions gav^e means of buying ; there were no manufactures;the province was exclusively an agricultural the earth, the mother of all, depended for its fertility onrain. The wet season is the time of plenty for the the first showers, the poor people have prepared theirlittle plantations of mandioca and vegetables, and the richerproprietor has started his fields of sugar-cane or cotton ; thele
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